Chris Barbin, leader of the Salesforce-aligned SI giant for a dozen years, will take a position transforming workplace culture at parent company Wipro. Erik Duffield, who runs the CRM business, will step into Barbin's shoes.

HPE CEO Antonio Neri said in an internal memo seen by CRN that the new unit will bring together all of the company's "hardware, software, and services capabilities into a single organization, effective immediately."

Fourteen of the 24 publicly held channel companies on our watch list saw the price of their stock increase in the first quarter of 2018 while 10 recorded stock price declines. Take a look at who were the winners and who were the losers.

Ingram Micro executive vice president and Americas group president Paul Bay says rather than focus on technology and its delivery, Ingram Micro today is all about the business outcome the channel needs to deliver.